Definitions for Database

Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word Database.

Princeton's WordNet(2.12 / 8 votes)Rate this definition:

database(noun)

an organized body of related information

Wiktionary(1.50 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

database(Noun)

A combination of (1) and (2).

database(Verb)

To enter data into a database

Freebase(4.14 / 7 votes)Rate this definition:

Database

A database is an organized collection of data. The data is typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality, in a way that supports processes requiring this information.
Database management systems are specially designed applications that interact with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose database management system is a software system designed to allow the definition, creation, querying, update, and administration of databases. Well-known DBMSs include MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Oracle, SAP, dBASE, FoxPro, IBM DB2 and FilemakerPro. A database is not generally portable across different DBMS, but different DBMSs can inter-operate by using standards such as SQL and ODBC or JDBC to allow a single application to work with more than one database.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

Database

Work consisting of a structured file of information or a set of logically related data stored and retrieved using computer-based means.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

database

Information that is normally structured and indexed for user access and review. Databases may exist in the form of physical files (folders, documents, etc.) or formatted automated data processing system data files.

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

The government has to not just address it but deal with it, identify the ghost workers, take sanctions against those who are responsible, remove those names from the list, clean up the database and stop these leakages.

Senator Markey’s Cyber Shield Act can work! Start the conversations with the basics: Use a QR code that attaches to a dynamic database that runs an artificial intelligence algorithm to calculate the score. Let’s not make this more difficult than it is.

Doing database checks doesn’t help much if you don’t have anything useful in the database on most people, we don’t have any information on who these people are. We don’t have access on Syrian vital statistics or government records, if they even still exist.

I want a database for the refugees, we have no idea who these people are. When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don't know if they're ISIS, we don't know if it's a Trojan horse. And I definitely want a database and other checks and balances.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.